The History Liverpool FC Kits 1989

Standard home player kit


	H 1.0

1989-90 Home player shirt short sleeve № 13 (staff shirt) - image with site facebook.com/liverpoolmatch.shirts

1989-90 Home player shirt long sleeve № 8 (full signed) - image with site facebook.com/huang.liang.5437

1989-90 Home player tracksuit top - image with site facebook.com/anfield.relics

1989-90 Home players shirt

Manufacturer: Adidas (made in United Kingdom)

Club sponsor: Candy

Years worn: 1989-91

In this design home shirt Liverpool first played in neutral Friendly (Makita Tournament) match versus Dynamo (Kiev, USSR), 2-0, 29.07.1989, at Wembley.

Replica shirt short sleeve price: J21,99 (the price is specified in a year of made and sale of this shirt, 1989-90. I not sale what you to see on this site, I not owner thos things)

In a season 1988-89 the design away shirt has changed. Liverpool used away shirt two seasons, 1988-89 & 1990-91. Liverpool used home shirt how in all home, as and in more away matches.

H 1.0 - Home shirt with home shorts & home socks.

* * - Unknown me now which kits used in this matches, but I assume used home shirt with home shorts & home socks.

The 1989/90 season has stuck with Liverpool fans worldwide for longer than any associated with the club would ever have imagined at the time. As the team celebrated lifting the League title, little did we know that this would be the last time that Liverpool Football Club could ever be classified the greatest team in England.

The kit changed from the 1989-90 season, although again fundamentally the new Adidas kit showed relatively slight changes, with the collar style and trim remaining the same on the new shirt. However, advances in technology meant it was now easy to incorporate patterns in the fabric and the Liverpool shirt gained faint white streaks, This shirt is commonly known as the "Fleck Shirt".

The shorts changed, gaining a broad white stripe down the sides with the three Adidas stripes in red on this stripe. The away strip remained silver grey with red trim, but again the fabric gained a pattern, this time two subtle shades of grey in this fleck style, The badges stayed fully embossed on the replica shirts and stitched on the players shirts, thus keeping the traditions for determining the difference between the replica and players style shirt.

Although the size of the wording "Candy" altered tremendously from replica to payers shirt, also altering in size on the different players shirt in each competition, as you can see from the picture below the candy logo takes up most of the chest of the shirt, considerably larger than on the previous home or away shirts.

Candy continued to sponsor Liverpool in the 1989-1991 seasons. The grey away shirt for this era has significant changes - instead of adopting plain red colour like the ones from 1985-1989, this piece shows a specky-red pattern colour. For the shirts from season 1989-1990, there are no patches on the sleeves and sewn on numbers are stitched on the backside. For the season 1990-1991, Division One Football League patches are stitched on the sleeves and velveteen numbers are ironed on the backside.

Interesting fact Liverpool field players used on 95% shirts with short sleeves. Me very was difficult to find photo or video when Liverpool field players was in long sleeves shirts. To find only one match when this was. Of 10 Liverpool field players, only Steve Staunton was in long sleeves shirt. Collage of screenshots with away Division One match Manchester City-Liverpool (02.12.1989).
Which else matches was used long sleeves shirt, I not know, need search.

How to distinguish a home shirt of a season 1989-90 from a home shirt of a season 1990-91, very difficultly, only for design player number (below) and in season 1990-91 on sleeves shirt was sawed patches THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE.

H 1.0
01.08.1989	away	Malmo	Friendly
29.07.1989	neutral	Dynamo Kiev	Friendly
30.07.1989	neutral	Arsenal	Friendly
07.08.1989	away	HJK Helsinki	Friendly
19.08.1989	home	Manchester City	Division One
26.08.1989	away	Luton Town	Division One
09.09.1989	away	Derby County	Division One
12.09.1989	home	Crystal Palace	Division One
16.09.1989	home	Norwich City	Division One
19.09.1989	away	Wigan Athletic	League Cup
23.09.1989	away	Everton	Division One
04.10.1989	home	Wigan Athletic	League Cup
14.10.1989	away	Wimbledon	Division One
29.10.1989	home	Tottenham Hotspur	Division One
04.11.1989	home	Coventry City	Division One
11.11.1989	away	Queens Park Rangers	Division One
19.11.1989	away	Millwall	Division One
26.11.1989	home	Arsenal	Division One
29.11.1989	away	Sheffield Wednesday	Division One
02.12.1989	away	Manchester City	Division One
09.12.1989	home	Aston Villa	Division One
16.12.1989	away	Chelsea	Division One
23.12.1989	home	Manchester United	Division One
26.12.1989	home	Sheffield Wednesday	Division One
30.12.1989	home	Charlton Athletic	Division One
06.01.1990	away	Swansea City	FA Cup
09.01.1990	home	Swansea City	FA Cup
13.01.1990	home	Luton Town	Division One
28.01.1990	away	Norwich City	FA Cup
31.01.1990	home	Norwich City	FA Cup
03.02.1990	home	Everton	Division One
10.02.1990	away	Norwich City	Division One
17.02.1990	home	Southampton	FA Cup
03.03.1990	home	Millwall	Division One
11.03.1990	away	Queens Park Rangers	FA Cup
14.03.1990	home	Queens Park Rangers	FA Cup
21.03.1990	away	Tottenham Hotspur	Division One
31.03.1990	home	Southampton	Division One
03.04.1990	home	Wimbledon	Division One
14.04.1990	home	Nottingham Forest	Division One
21.04.1990	home	Chelsea	Division One
28.04.1990	home	Queens Park Rangers	Division One
01.05.1990	home	Derby County	Division One
05.05.1990	away	Coventry City	Division One
* *
03.08.1989	away	Vasalunds IF	Friendly
05.08.1989	away	Halmstads BK	Friendly
30.08.1989	away	Real Madrid	Friendly

1st image, embroidered emblem club. 2nd image, player number (sawed player numbe) used in season 1989-90, on Liverpool shirt for matches in different tournament. Last image, player number (rprinted number with Adidas logo) used in seasons 1990-91, on Liverpool shirt for matches in different tournament.

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Home replica shirt	Home shorts	Home socks
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1st Variant home player kit

Standard away player kit


	A 1.0	A 1.1

1989-90 Away player shirt short sleeve № 4 Steve Nichol - image with site facebook.com/anfield.relics

1989-90 Home player tracksuit top - image with site facebook.com/anfield.relics

1989-90 Away players shirt

Manufacturer: Adidas (made in United Kingdom)

Club sponsor: Candy

Years worn: 1989-91

In this design away shirt Liverpool first played in neutral Charity Shield match versus Manchester United, 1-0, 12.08.1989, at Wembley.

Replica shirt short sleeve price: J21,99 (the price is specified in a year of made and sale of this shirt, 1989-90. I not sale what you to see on this site, I not owner thos things)

In a season 1988-89 the design away shirt has changed. Liverpool used away shirt two seasons, 1988-89 & 1990-91.

A 1.0 - Away shirt with away shorts & away socks.
A 1.1 - Away shirt (without special embroidery Charity Shield) with away shorts & away socks.

The 1989/90 season has stuck with Liverpool fans worldwide for longer than any associated with the club would ever have imagined at the time. As the team celebrated lifting the League title, little did we know that this would be the last time that Liverpool Football Club could ever be classified the greatest team in England.

The kit changed from the 1989-90 season, although again fundamentally the new Adidas kit showed relatively slight changes, with the collar style and trim remaining the same on the new shirt. However, advances in technology meant it was now easy to incorporate patterns in the fabric and the Liverpool shirt gained faint white streaks, This shirt is commonly known as the "Fleck Shirt".

The shorts changed, gaining a broad white stripe down the sides with the three Adidas stripes in red on this stripe. The away strip remained silver grey with red trim, but again the fabric gained a pattern, this time two subtle shades of grey in this fleck style, The badges stayed fully embossed on the replica shirts and stitched on the players shirts, thus keeping the traditions for determining the difference between the replica and players style shirt.

Although the size of the wording "Candy" altered tremendously from replica to payers shirt, also altering in size on the different players shirt in each competition, as you can see from the picture below the candy logo takes up most of the chest of the shirt, considerably larger than on the previous home or away shirts.

Candy continued to sponsor Liverpool in the 1989-1991 seasons. The grey away shirt for this era has significant changes - instead of adopting plain red colour like the ones from 1985-1989, this piece shows a specky-red pattern colour. For the shirts from season 1989-1990, there are no patches on the sleeves and sewn on numbers are stitched on the backside. For the season 1990-1991, Division One Football League patches are stitched on the sleeves and velveteen numbers are ironed on the backside.

In 1989 Charity Shield match was used simple away shirt (photo in top left side page, Ian Rush A 1.1), in shirt not was special embroidery to this match. The special embroidery as was absent in matches Charity Shield 1971, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992 & 1994. Liverpool also played in 60's Charity Shield matches, but and this matches used simple shirt, without special embroidery.

How to distinguish a away shirt of a season 1989-90 from a away shirt of a season 1990-91, very difficultly, only for design player number (below) and in season 1990-91 on sleeves shirt was sawed patches The Football League.

A 1.0
21.10.1989	away	Southampton	Division One
25.10.1989	away	Arsenal	League Cup
01.01.1990	away	Nottingham Forest	Division One
20.01.1990	away	Crystal Palace	Division One
18.03.1990	away	Manchester United	Division One
08.04.1990	away	Crystal Palace	FA Cup
11.04.1990	away	Charlton Athletic	Division One
18.04.1990	away	Arsenal	Division One
A 1.1
12.08.1989	away	Arsenal	Charity Shield


Away Charity Shield shirt	Away replica shirt	Away shorts

Away socks	Away fake shirt
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1st Variant away player kit

2nd Variant away player kit

Standard third player kit


	T 1.0

1989-90 Third player shirt long sleeve № 7, 8, 9 (red-grey stripes on sleeves) - not now good image

1989-90 Third player shirt long sleeve № 12 (red-white stripes) - image with site liverpoolkits.com

1989-90 Third players shirt

Manufacturer: Adidas (made in United Kingdom)

Club sponsor: Candy

Years worn: 1988-90

In this design third shirt Liverpool may be first played in away Division One match versus Aston Villa, 1-1, 23.08.1989, at Villa Park.

Replica shirt short sleeve price: J I did not see any of replica third shirt.

In a season 1989-90 the design third shirt has changed. Liverpool used third shirt one season, 1989-90.

T 1.0 - Third shirt with home shorts & home socks.

Now not one third player shirt with red-grey stripes on sleeves. Have only third player shirt with red-white stripes on sleeves. In season 1989-90, Liverpool also in one away Division One match versus Aston Villa (23.08.1989) used third shirt. On this moment I have only black-white photo with this match and I cannot precisely define what color of a strip on a sleeve red-gray or red-white. May be who have photos with this match (23.08.1989).

The new kit for the 1987-88 season showed only a few subtle changes from the previous season. The Adidas stripes on the shirt now extended all the way down the sleeve and the collar was changed to a curious wrap-over design seen for the first time on Liverpool shirts, Although plain red there is a very faint wide stripe that runs through the shirt in almost the same colour, the stripe being a slightly more shiny material, Within the stripes of the shirt the Liver bird and the Adidas badge are repeated and can only be seen on close inspection.

The major change on this shirt being the badge design that was also changed, with the Liver bird now placed in a new shield design with the words Liverpool Football Club written below, This is the same badge that would be used for a number of years after this shirt, The badges stayed an embossed material with the players shirts being stitched.

By now Crown Paints had decided on the best way to display their logo on the front of the shirt and the logo was not seen again on only the one line as had been the case on previous shirts.

The only difference for this home shirt introduced in 1988 was the sponsors badge, Crown Paints were replaced as sponsors by the electrical manufacurers Candy after the 1987-88 season. They chose to have their logo in red on the away shirts and white on the home shirt as can be seen in this picture with it is left.

Left image, Red-grey stripes on sleeves with third player shirt used in season 1988-89. Right image, Red-white stripes on sleeves with third player shirt may be used in season 1989-90.

Only two photos with this match which I have. On photo Glenn Hysen chased David Platt. On Glenn Hysen dressing third shirt with red-grey stripes on sleeves
Some peoples think what third shirt with red-white stripes on sleeves was used in this match, why not.
We not know which half match was made photo. Yes, this it matters because some players changed their t-shirts because they didn't want to play in wet or dirty t-shirts. These are the main reasons why in the 70's and early 80's you can find Liverpool players in shirts with the Umbro logo and without it.

This screenshot with video of "Aston Villa Season review 1989 - 1990". How you can to see not can define something. I hope may be to find other photos or full match video.

Interesting but user Richard Aspden (March 3, 2020) written:
"Were any of the long sleeved versions employed for the 1988/89 game? If not it would suggest the long sleeved versions were a second batch where the matching stripe material was applied. The first batch were presumably more of a rush job and just used the existing away stripes.
This may also partially explain why the 1989/90 version was the old template and not a whole new design – the material being quite different in 1989/90 on the home and away shirts from the shadow pattern of 1988/89."
Full article "The strange case of Liverpool’s 1988-90 third shirt" readin here.

T 1.0
23.08.1989	away	Aston Villa	Division One

1st image, embroidered club emblem. Last image, player number use on Liverpool shirt for matches in different tournament.

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Home shorts	Home socks
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Standard home goalkeeper kit


H G 1.0	H G 1.1	H G 1.2

1989-90 Home goalkeeper shirt long sleeve - image with site liverpoolkits.com

1989-90 Home goalkeeper shirt long sleeve № 1 Bruce Grobbelaar - not now good image

1989-90 Home player tracksuit top - image with site Anfield Relics facebook.com/anfield.relics

1989-90 Home replica goalkeeper shirt long sleeve - image with site Old football shirts oldfootballshirts.com

1989-90 Home goalkeepers shirt

Manufacturer: Adidas (made in United Kingdom)

Club sponsor: Candy

Years worn: 1989-91

In this design home goalkeeper shirt Liverpool first played in neutral Friendly (Makita Tournament) match versus Dynamo (Kiev, U S S R), 2-0, 29.07.1989, at Wembley.

Replica goalkeeper shirt long sleeve price: J

In a season 1989-90 the design home goalkeeper shirt has changed. Liverpool used home goalkeeper shirt two seasons, 1988-89 & 1990-91. Liverpool used home goalkeeper shirt how in all home, as and in more away matches. In season 1989-90, Liverpool used with home goalkeeper shirt different kits:
Home shorts and home socks
Away shorts and away socks

H G 1.0 - Home goalkeeper shirt with home shorts & home socks.
H G 1.1 - Home goalkeeper shirt with away shorts & away socks.
H G 1.2 - Home goalkeeper shirt (without special embroudery Charity Shield) with away shorts & away socks.

G * - Unknown me now which goalkeeper kits used in this matches, but I assume used home goalkeeper shirt with away shorts & away socks.

The 1989/90 season has stuck with Liverpool fans worldwide for longer than any associated with the club would ever have imagined at the time. As the team celebrated lifting the League title, little did we know that this would be the last time that Liverpool Football Club could ever be classified the greatest team in England.

The kit changed from the 1989-90 season, although again fundamentally the new Adidas kit showed relatively slight changes, with the collar style and trim remaining the same on the new shirt. However, advances in technology meant it was now easy to incorporate patterns in the fabric and the Liverpool shirt gained faint white streaks, This shirt is commonly known as the "Fleck Shirt".

The shorts changed, gaining a broad white stripe down the sides with the three Adidas stripes in red on this stripe. The away strip remained silver grey with red trim, but again the fabric gained a pattern, this time two subtle shades of grey in this fleck style, The badges stayed fully embossed on the replica shirts and stitched on the players shirts, thus keeping the traditions for determining the difference between the replica and players style shirt.

Although the size of the wording "Candy" altered tremendously from replica to payers shirt, also altering in size on the different players shirt in each competition, as you can see from the picture below the candy logo takes up most of the chest of the shirt, considerably larger than on the previous home or away shirts.

Candy continued to sponsor Liverpool in the 1989-1991 seasons. The grey away shirt for this era has significant changes - instead of adopting plain red colour like the ones from 1985-1989, this piece shows a specky-red pattern colour. For the shirts from season 1989-1990, there are no patches on the sleeves and sewn on numbers are stitched on the backside. For the season 1990-1991, Division One Football League patches are stitched on the sleeves and velveteen numbers are ironed on the backside.

In Charity Shield match was used simple home goalkeeper shirt (photo in top left side page, Bruce Grobbelaar H G 1.1), in shirt not was special embroidery to this match. The special embroidery as was absent in matches Charity Shield 1971, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992 & 1994. Liverpool also played in 60's Charity Shield matches, but and this matches used simple shirt, without special embroidery.

Left image, fragment squad photos 1989-90 one goalie shirt seems to be Liverbird crest aligns with "y" of "Candy". Right image, fragment squad photos 1990-91 one goalie shirt seems to be Liverbird crest aligns with "d" of "Candy".

Upper portion - player issued shirt, see that the Liverbird crest aligns with "y" of "Candy" sponsor (1 variant).
Lower portion - goalie replica, see that the Liverbird crest aligns with "d" of "Candy" sponsor (2 variant).

How to distinguish a home goalkeeper shirt of a season 1989-90 from a home goalkeeper shirt of a season 1990-91, very difficultly, only for design player number (below) and in season 1990-91 on sleeves shirt was sawed patches THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE.

H G 1.0
29.07.1989	neutral	Dynamo Kiev	Friendly
30.07.1989	neutral	Arsenal	Friendly
19.08.1989	home	Manchester City	Division One
23.08.1989	away	Aston Villa	Division One
26.08.1989	away	Luton Town	Division One
09.09.1989	away	Derby County	Division One
12.09.1989	home	Crystal Palace	Division One
16.09.1989	home	Norwich City	Division One
19.09.1989	away	Wigan Athletic	League Cup
23.09.1989	away	Everton	Division One
04.10.1989	home	Wigan Athletic	League Cup
14.10.1989	away	Wimbledon	Division One
29.10.1989	home	Tottenham Hotspur	Division One
04.11.1989	home	Coventry City	Division One
11.11.1989	away	Queens Park Rangers	Division One
19.11.1989	away	Millwall	Division One
26.11.1989	home	Arsenal	Division One
29.11.1989	away	Sheffield Wednesday	Division One
02.12.1989	away	Manchester City	Division One
09.12.1989	home	Aston Villa	Division One
16.12.1989	away	Chelsea	Division One
23.12.1989	home	Manchester United	Division One
26.12.1989	home	Sheffield Wednesday	Division One
30.12.1989	home	Charlton Athletic	Division One
06.01.1990	away	Swansea City	FA Cup
09.01.1990	home	Swansea City	FA Cup
13.01.1990	home	Luton Town	Division One
28.01.1990	away	Norwich City	FA Cup
31.01.1990	home	Norwich City	FA Cup
03.02.1990	home	Everton	Division One
10.02.1990	away	Norwich City	Division One
17.02.1990	home	Southampton	FA Cup
03.03.1990	home	Millwall	Division One
11.03.1990	away	Queens Park Rangers	FA Cup
14.03.1990	home	Queens Park Rangers	FA Cup
21.03.1990	away	Tottenham Hotspur	Division One
31.03.1990	home	Southampton	Division One
03.04.1990	home	Wimbledon	Division One
14.04.1990	home	Nottingham Forest	Division One
21.04.1990	home	Chelsea	Division One
28.04.1990	home	Queens Park Rangers	Division One
01.05.1990	home	Derby County	Division One
05.05.1990	away	Coventry City	Division One
H G 1.1
21.10.1989	away	Southampton	Division One
25.10.1989	away	Arsenal	League Cup
01.01.1990	away	Nottingham Forest	Division One
20.01.1990	away	Crystal Palace	Division One
18.03.1990	away	Manchester United	Division One
08.04.1990	away	Crystal Palace	FA Cup
11.04.1990	away	Charlton Athletic	Division One
18.04.1990	away	Arsenal	Division One
H G 1.2
12.08.1989	neutral	Arsenal	Charity Shield
G *
01.08.1989	away	Malmo	Friendly
03.08.1989	away	Vasalunds IF	Friendly
05.08.1989	away	Halmstads BK	Friendly
07.08.1989	away	HJK Helsinki	Friendly
30.08.1989	away	Real Madrid	Friendly
29.07.1989	neutral	Dynamo Kiev	Friendly
30.07.1989	neutral	Arsenal	Friendly

Left to right: 1st image, embroidered club emblem. 2nd image, player number (sawed player numbe) used in season 1989-90, on Liverpool shirt for matches in different tournament. Last image, player number (rprinted number with Adidas logo) used in seasons 1990-91, on Liverpool shirt for matches in different tournament.

Difference between a player shirt and a replica shirt, and as other features of a player shirt to look here


Home Charity Shield goalkeeper shirt	Home shorts	Home socks

Away shorts	Away socks
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Standard home player kit

1st Variant home player kit

Standard away player kit

1st Variant away player kit

2nd Variant away player kit

Standard third player kit

Standard home goalkeeper kit

1st Variant home goalkeeper kit

2nd Variant home goalkeeper kit

3rd Variant home goalkeeper kit

Standard away goalkeeper kit

1st Variant away goalkeeper kit

Standard third goalkeeper kit